Quotes About Awareness

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.

You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers.

Taylor clapped for attention. "Miss New Mexico, let's not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don't even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.

dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

You must work always to understand your own heart so that it cannot be used against you.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

She would live every day fully. She was not the same girl she'd been nearly a year ago. She would never see things so blithely again. Even now, as Evie watched the parade and the people alight with pride and joy, she knew how easily that same crowd could become angry. The things that divided them. The things that brought them together, too. They couldn't afford to become complacent.

Looking for truth makes a man hafta look at himself along the way.

Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.

Miss New Mexico stared, dumbfounded. Stand out? Stand out? I have a freaking tray stuck in my forehead! She broke into fresh sobs. Taylor clapped for attention. Miss New Mexico, let's not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don't even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.

I know because I read.

And she wanted so much to make him happy that she forgot how to make herself happy" "That is not happiness. That is kind of murder, yeah?

You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow.

No. I like my girls fully conscious when I kiss 'em. I'm funny that way

I'm not really sure what I am at all anymore. We're not just sashes and states, Nicole said on a sigh. Or gender, Petra murmured. Or bodies. I'm sort of everything all at once, Nicole whispered. And then they were silent, lost to dreaming.

what we do not study and reflect upon, we are in danger of dismissing or forgetting. What we forget, we are often doomed to repeat. Our ghosts, it seems, are always with us, whispering that attention must be paid.

But what was the point of living so quietly... you made no noise at all

Every time you observe you give yourself the opportunity to learn.

cool koko also says Dumb animals know more about humans than dumb humans know about animals.